MURDER MYSTERY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22226, 28 September 1935, Page 10

MURDER MYSTERY

HUMAN REMAINS FOUND FORMER CRIME RECALLED What is believed to have connection faith the mysterious disappearance of three men in the Murchison district, Western Australia, in 1930, and for the murder of one of whom John Thomas Smith, aged 27, alias "Snowy" Bowles, was executed in 1932, is the finding pf human regains in a shallow grave near a rabbit-pi;oof fence about 110 miles south-east of Mount Magnet. Detective-Sergeant Manning, who demoted many months to investigations which led to the conviction and execution of Smith, has been sent from Perth to hatidlo the present case. A report received from Mount Magnet states that the remains were found by an employee on Bogle Brother*' Narndee 'station. The skull was taken to Mount Magnet, and appeared to bp that of a man who had died about five years ago. In the case in which Smith was charged, remains were found in ashes near the 18.J-:mile peg on a rabbit-proof fence, and were identified by the artificial teeth and other odds and ends as those of Leslie Georgo Brown, aged 27, single, also known as Louis J. Carton, a French Canadian. The remains just found were near the 160-mile peg. Two other men missing at thp same time were James Rya,n, aged about 4£i, and George Lloyd, aged about 30, bot!h South Australians. They have never been traced. The skeleton was found in a partlyiracovered shallow grave covered by heavy stones. The grave was about 23 xmleß from the spot where Brown's fflbarred remains were found in 1930*